9:13pm March 16, 2012

➸ Canada: Global News Live Blogging Promotion of Killing Disabled Kids Tonight

Tonight (March 16) Global News is doing a ‘live blog’ promoting the killing of children with disabilities. The Canadian news network is calling it a 'discussion,’ but they’re misleading people. They have a three-person panel. The first person is convicted killer Robert Latimer, who killed his 12-year-old daughter Tracy by gassing her in the cab of his truck. There is a woman who has two institutionalized sons and wants to be able to - I guess “put them down” would be the term. They also have 'ethicist’ Arthur Schafer, who is on record as being in favor about just about any killing of old, ill or disabled persons as long as the killer says they did it out of mercy.

The live blog is starting at 8:00 pm EST and will run until midnight. They are already taking comments (which run by a moderator.

Follow the link and you’ll find direct links to comment on the discussion. Please do if you can manage it. This is horrifying. Note that lots of disabled commenters are not seeing our comments coming through. (And for those who actually think this is ever okay – this is killing people who never asked to die, where it’s just assumed, in the face of much evidence to the contrary, that we’d want to die. I say we because I fit well into the demographic this happens to.)

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